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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decision", read it with such high appreciation and received...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Valley of DecisionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from R. H....		Muriel Stevens H. G. WellsThe Valley of SpidersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from ...		Muriel Stevens H. G. WellsThe Valley of SpidersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Rosamund Wallis Frederick HamiltonThe Vanished Pomps of Yesterday: Being some random...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alexander Charles Louis D'ArblayThe Vanity of All Earthly GreatnessPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel JohnsonThe Vanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage. 8th May ’43
    Muriel Stevens in the Chair
1. Minutes of last meeting read & signed

[...] ...		Bruce Dilks Samuel JohnsonThe Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Ju...Print: Book
1900-1945"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things."Leslie Stephen William JamesThe varieties of religious experiencePrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not ye...Arnold Bennett André GideThe Vatican SwindlePrint: Book
1700-1799Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.Gertrude Savile Philip MassingerThe Very WomanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullhampton", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's boo...John Buckley Castieau Anthony TrollopeThe Vicar of BullhamptonPrint: Book
1800-1849I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of WakefieldAnne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips." John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was...John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldUnknown
1700-1799'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica...Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga...H. M. Swanwick Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'Frances Burney Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, well wrote and where there are some very good characte...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell through all his crooked paths. I have gone but a sho...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'. ...Claire Clairmont Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book


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